My interest in British views of Russians recently led me to read Oscar Wilde’s first play, Vera, or The Nihilists, apparently inspired by Vera Zasulich’s attempted assassination of the Governor of St Petersburg in 1878. It’s spectacularly bad, and I’m surprised neither that its first productions, in London in 1880 and New York in 1882, […]
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Vera, or The Nihilists
Posted by Sarah Young on May 9, 2011
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2011/05/09/vera-or-the-nihilists/
Russians in London: the anarchist threat
For my final post in the series (for now), I want to discuss events rather than individuals. As a couple of my recent posts have suggested, by the end of the nineteenth century, the nature and number of Russian visitors to, and settlers in, London had changed considerably. It was no longer the preserve of […]
Posted by Sarah Young on January 31, 2011
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2011/01/31/russians-in-london-the-anarchist-threat/